Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis